WARNING!
- You must like the color RED. If not, don't view this page. (Specifically "torch red")
These are digital pictures
I received March 13th. They show the Chassis complete with the motor and trans installed.
Also the body with the
final coat on the underside, inside the engine compartment, etc. Color primed on the top ready for final paint... They
were planning to paint the outer body today and will send pics as soon as feasible.
Motor was received back
from the machine shop, reassembled & put on their test bench last week before bolting it up to the trans and dropping
it onto the chassis. Ran like new!!! Took me two days (off and on) to pull that motor and trans -
probably took them 20 minutes to install it.
Bit
of fun history on Dad's Bird for those interested;
Almost guaranteed, any classic Tbird (55-57) you see will have "fancy" wide stripe white wall tires on it... Look up
pictures on the internet and you’ll see what I mean. The pure black wall tires that are shown on the
chassis below were just recently purchased and mounted on Dad's Bird intentionally. Dad actually pointed this "oddity"
out to me on one occasion... and proceeded to explain why he had plain black wall tires vice the "more desirable", many
would say “correct”, fancy wide white walls. Keep in mind, Dad's Dad (Grandad Cracknell) owned a service
station (a true "Service" station) and Dad grew up working there, I think as early as eight years old... Grandad paid
him a quarter a day or something like that. When he bought the Tbird, he felt he had scrubbed his fair share of
whitewalls in his childhood and teenage years and was perfectly happy sacrificing the "fancier" look of the whitewall
tires so that he would not have to break out the "Brillo pad". So, black wall tires the car gets. Funny thing is, I KNOW I will get grief from people on this! Especially Tbird or classic car savvy
folks.. i.e. "That's not correct!" Well,
sorry, but it is for this car. Look at any of the old pics of the car on the main page, even the one taken the first
year he had it, and when we pulled it out of storage... black walls...
